27 January 2013

Thug Politics: If The GOP Wants To See What Obama Has Planned For Them, They Should Visit Chicago

M2RB: Eliena Siegman - Der Riese Theme

All my
atrocities

Come by way of reciprocity

Your
curiosity

Feeding off
my animosity

And reason

Is treason

Down with
all that's good and clean and you can't fucking annihilate me!

National party thinks things are rough after loss to Obama, but it hasn't seen how things work in Chicago

By John Kass

With President Barack Obama embarking on his second term, the Republicans have proceeded through their stages of grief:

•Denial. (He's just a wacky socialist.)

•Anger. (He was born in Kenya.)

•Bargaining. (Not all rich guys who sell arms to the Pentagon are evil.)

•Depression. (It's all Ron Paul's fault.)

And now, with Obama poised to stuff the Republicans in a burlap sack
and drop them into the Potomac, we're at the well-known fifth stage of
GOP grief:

•Acceptance. Finally.

"So we're expecting over the next 22 months to be the focus of this
(Obama) administration as they attempt to annihilate the Republican
Party," said House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio, accurately predicting
the future.

"And let me just tell you," Boehner said without a tear, "I do
believe that is their goal — to just shove us into the dustbin of
history."

Sorry, Mr. Speaker, but speaking as a conservative (and not a Republican), I don't know about that dustbin of history part.

Obama is a Chicago Democrat. And Chicago Democrats aren't known for
sweeping their enemies into dustbins. That's too tidy, and it doesn't
involve gristle or fluids.

Here's what Chicago Democrats do — they rip the heads off their
enemies and shout down their necks: "You didn't build that! Hahaha!"

Republicans shouldn't be surprised. Obama needs to annihilate them to
fully transform America into his ideal, which involves every American
connected by bureaucratic umbilical cord to one government program or
another, and in our sleep we'll hum, collectively, "Yes, we can!"

What should truly peeve the Republicans is that, as presently constructed, they can't do anything to stop him.

At least the Democrats know what they're about. Democrats are the
government party, and they're about big, big government; big, big taxes
to come on the middle class (demonizing the rich was just a prelude);
redistribution of income; and making lawyers rich.

But the Republicans? What are they about?

They don't know what they're about, not really, and so they have a
difficult time explaining what they don't know they're not about to the
American people who don't know either.

Obamaphones? That's easy. That woman in Cleveland at the Romney rally
explained it well, if not accurately: She's got a phone in her hand,
she thinks Obama in his kindness gave it to her, and even though he
didn't, she sings his praises as her benefactor. That's simple enough.

Confused Republicans can't draft simple messages. And, to be fair,
it's difficult for a nation that looks to the Kardashians for cultural
guidance to embrace the subtleties of sequestration and its effects on
the budget process.

Establishment Washington Republicans talk and talk about fiscal
responsibility, about the need to "cut spending" on all those
unsustainable entitlement programs turning the U.S. economy into a big
plate of flaming Greek cheese.

Young voters clinging to the Democratic Party will cry one day, and
pull out their hair when they realize the costs of trillions upon
trillions in debt and the effects of inflation. But for now, they're
busy tweeting and getting their politics from Comedy Central. When they
wake, don't be surprised if they start talking about death panels for
everyone older than 60. By then, of course, it'll be too late.

So the Democratic message — give us free stuff because rich, white
guys are evil — is effective. But the Republicans, what's their message?
"Kick me, Mr. Obama"?

Republicans often talk of cutting domestic spending on entitlements
for poor people. But in the same breath, the GOP backs defense contracts
for wars that the middle class doesn't want to fight.

Republican establishment, where's the logic in that?

I don't think Republican bosses care, as long as they're the ones
holding the rice bowl. It's about control and power, and they'll let
Obama kick them and kick them as long as they've got their paws on that
bowl. It's their bowl. You didn't build that. They did.

If national Republicans want to see what's coming and why, they might
want to think about visiting Illinois, to see what Republicans can do
when they abandon their principle and play junior Democrats in order to
cling to their rice bowls.

For decade upon decade in Illinois, Boss Democrats spent and spent.
But so did Boss Republicans. The Democrats kept their political workers
happy and used them to leverage power and treasure. The Republicans kept
businesses happy and used corporate leverage for power and treasure.

Middle-class taxpayers paid the bill. About 10 years ago they began to leave by the thousands. Now Illinois is broke.